London, England, United Kingdom
I have lived in 5 countries spanning 3 continents - Greece, Italy, Australia, USA and the UK - where I have always adapted quickly and thrived. Working with people in a plethora of cultural and academic contexts, I have become an effective communicator, teammate and leader, as well as a very fast learner. My motivation is to make a positive change in the world through innovation and initiative! I have programming experience in Python, C, embedded systems and FPGAs, and I am eager to expand my understanding of computing from digital hardware to software!
RA for the Machine Learning Research Group led by Professor Ilija Bogunovic in the UCL Department of EEE. Contributed to publication on Group-Robust Preference Optimisation for LLMs (ArXiv 2405.20304). • ML Robustness/Fairness applied to Preference Optimisation (DPO, IPO) for aligning LLMs • Experiments on synthetic bandits and real LLMs (using LoRA full-finetuning)
• Machine Learning research and data analysis on millions of real user data • Publication: "Bootstrapped Personalized Popularity for Cold Start Recommender Systems", RecSys 2023 I conducted this long-term Machine Learning project as my Year 3 UCL project in collaboration with the BBC, where I researched and proposed novel Recommender Systems to address the Cold Start problem in recommendations, using real BBC user data. I have published this novel algorithm alongside my UCL and BBC supervisors at the RecSys 2023 conference in Singapore!
As a Academic Rep for the UCL EEE Department, I represented my second-year cohort of 200+ students in frequent Student-Staff Consultative Committee (SSCC) meetings, where I assessed the student experience alongside the administrators, setting SMART action plans to effectively address issues and improve student satisfaction. Also, I participated in the proposal, organisation and advertising of a student social and networking event for all UCL EEE cohorts, which involved first-years up to Masters and PhD students with very high student turnout!